EGB101 Engineering Design and Professional Practice
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| Unit code: | EGB101 |
|---|---|
| Equivalent(s): | EGD101 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,968 |
| International unit fee | $6,252 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB101 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGD101 |
| Coordinator: | Sam Cunningham | sam.cunningham@qut.edu.au |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply technical engineering fundamentals and the engineering design process to a given project, including justification and reasoning for design decisions made at an introduced level.
- Critically reflect on engineering design process and professional practice, project management, cultural diversity and ethics with regard to professional engineering practice at an introduced level.
- Collaborate in a team to create and deliver engineering outcomes and to communicate those outcomes to engineers and other stakeholders at an introduced level.
Content
- Introduction to engineering, professional identity and being a Professional Engineer
- How engineers locate information, evaluate its relevance to their engineering work, and use it
- Analysis of physical systems to predict their behaviour and application in practice
- Application of Engineering design methods, tools and techniques to simple engineering systems
- Introduction to professional and personal attributes required of a professional engineer
- Key engineering teamwork principles and elements and the role of an engineer in society
- Introduction to professional engineering communication including writing, presenting and engineering drawing
This unit will include content, case studies and examples of the ways in which the work of professional engineers connects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s status as First Nations owners of land and seas.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers to give you insight into professional engineering knowledge, skills and attributes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. These will be facilitated by tutors and provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
- Design practicals which include experiments and hands-on construction of physical systems in which you will work together with your group in person.
In addition to timetabled activities, you will be provided with learning resources including videos and readings on a unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to complement your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator and Tutors.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions.
- Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding release of these resources.
- Work in a multi-disciplinary team to complete a design and build project. While there will be time during scheduled design and practicals, you and your team will also need to undertake independent work outside that time to complete the project tasks, particularly for areas of individual responsibility.
- Prepare for timetabled classes and activities and follow up on any work not completed.
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently across the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and practicals, you will share your formative ideas for your engineering design project and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your team as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the design process and your understandings of professional engineering practice. Each assessment submission will be marked against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers, against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes.
You will work in a team to undertake an engineering design project across the semester, deploying work practices that align to professional engineering practice (such as project management, ethical work practices and sustainable design principles). You will submit three pieces of assessment related to that design process. You will be expected to work together with your team members and independently to make individual contributions to the design project. You will both build and report on the engineering system and critically reflect on the way you work throughout the semester, developing your professional skills.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes
In this task, you will initially complete a short Journey Map and reflection task, focused on your engineering professional identity. You will be introduced to the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer, and link these elements to your current professional identity, and professional identity being developed throughout your engineering studies, and professional career.
You will then complete a short scoping study report in which you explore the users, stakeholders, community, location, and other contextual factors related to your design project.
This assessment links back to key elements of the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards, in particular the Professional and Personal attributes.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
You will work in a team of student engineers to plan a real world design, and develop a prototype.
Throughout the semester you will work together individually, and as a team to complete your project. The team is expected to apply project and team management principles to enable successful delivery of your Project Specification & Plan. Small milestones will be set throughout the semester for you and your team, and you will receive ongoing feedback throughout the semester. These include elements such as,
- Meeting agendas and minutes
- Project plans (in the form of a Gantt chart)
- Preliminary designs and sketches
- Individual Reflections
- Responses to teaching team feedback
- Regular contributions to the teams working space
- Group contributions and reflections
As this assessment is ongoing throughout the semester, it is not elligible for the 48 hour late submission period.
Assessment: Engineering Project Outcomes
You will work in a team to design and plan an engineering system. You will also develop and create a prototype of this system. You will need to communicate your design in a written report that presents key elements of the user and community engagement, design process, final design and functional performance. Your group will also present your design to the teaching team and peers.
This final report is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions. The presentation is not elligible for this late submission period.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant reading and other resources will be uploaded onto the Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Reference book(s)
Engineering Your Future: An Australasian Guide, David Dowling, Roger Hadgraft, Anna Carew, Tim McCarthy, Doug Hargreaves, Caroline Baillie, Sally Male
Risk Assessment Statement
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
1: Knowledge and Skill Base
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
2: Engineering Application Ability
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO2, Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO3, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO1, Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
EN29 Bachelor of Engineering Studies
- Evidence of making ethical decisions within the social, cultural and organisational contexts of professional practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Evidence of engaging stakeholders professionally and communicating the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of displaying leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of being able to manage projects to solve some engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of deploying appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of demonstrating coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer and information science.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB101 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGD101 |
| Coordinator: | Sam Cunningham | sam.cunningham@qut.edu.au |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply technical engineering fundamentals and the engineering design process to a given project, including justification and reasoning for design decisions made at an introduced level.
- Critically reflect on engineering design process and professional practice, project management, cultural diversity and ethics with regard to professional engineering practice at an introduced level.
- Collaborate in a team to create and deliver engineering outcomes and to communicate those outcomes to engineers and other stakeholders at an introduced level.
Content
- Introduction to engineering, professional identity and being a Professional Engineer
- How engineers locate information, evaluate its relevance to their engineering work, and use it
- Analysis of physical systems to predict their behaviour and application in practice
- Application of Engineering design methods, tools and techniques to simple engineering systems
- Introduction to professional and personal attributes required of a professional engineer
- Key engineering teamwork principles and elements and the role of an engineer in society
- Introduction to professional engineering communication including writing, presenting and engineering drawing
This unit will include content, case studies and examples of the ways in which the work of professional engineers connects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s status as First Nations owners of land and seas.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers to give you insight into professional engineering knowledge, skills and attributes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. These will be facilitated by tutors and provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
- Design practicals which include experiments and hands-on construction of physical systems in which you will work together with your group in person.
In addition to timetabled activities, you will be provided with learning resources including videos and readings on a unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to complement your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator and Tutors.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions.
- Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding release of these resources.
- Work in a multi-disciplinary team to complete a design and build project. While there will be time during scheduled design and practicals, you and your team will also need to undertake independent work outside that time to complete the project tasks, particularly for areas of individual responsibility.
- Prepare for timetabled classes and activities and follow up on any work not completed.
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently across the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and practicals, you will share your formative ideas for your engineering design project and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your team as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the design process and your understandings of professional engineering practice. Each assessment submission will be marked against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers, against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes.
You will work in a team to undertake an engineering design project across the semester, deploying work practices that align to professional engineering practice (such as project management, ethical work practices and sustainable design principles). You will submit three pieces of assessment related to that design process. You will be expected to work together with your team members and independently to make individual contributions to the design project. You will both build and report on the engineering system and critically reflect on the way you work throughout the semester, developing your professional skills.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes
In this task, you will initially complete a short Journey Map and reflection task, focused on your engineering professional identity. You will be introduced to the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer, and link these elements to your current professional identity, and professional identity being developed throughout your engineering studies, and professional career.
You will then complete a short scoping study report in which you explore the users, stakeholders, community, location, and other contextual factors related to your design project.
This assessment links back to key elements of the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards, in particular the Professional and Personal attributes.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
You will work in a team of student engineers to plan a real world design, and develop a prototype.
Throughout the semester you will work together individually, and as a team to complete your project. The team is expected to apply project and team management principles to enable successful delivery of your Project Specification & Plan. Small milestones will be set throughout the semester for you and your team, and you will receive ongoing feedback throughout the semester. These include elements such as,
- Meeting agendas and minutes
- Project plans (in the form of a Gantt chart)
- Preliminary designs and sketches
- Individual Reflections
- Responses to teaching team feedback
- Regular contributions to the teams working space
- Group contributions and reflections
As this assessment is ongoing throughout the semester, it is not elligible for the 48 hour late submission period.
Assessment: Engineering Project Outcomes
You will work in a team to design and plan an engineering system. You will also develop and create a prototype of this system. You will need to communicate your design in a written report that presents key elements of the user and community engagement, design process, final design and functional performance. Your group will also present your design to the teaching team and peers.
This final report is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions. The presentation is not elligible for this late submission period.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant reading and other resources will be uploaded onto the Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Reference book(s)
Engineering Your Future: An Australasian Guide, David Dowling, Roger Hadgraft, Anna Carew, Tim McCarthy, Doug Hargreaves, Caroline Baillie, Sally Male
Risk Assessment Statement
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
1: Knowledge and Skill Base
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
2: Engineering Application Ability
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO2, Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO3, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO1, Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
EN29 Bachelor of Engineering Studies
- Evidence of making ethical decisions within the social, cultural and organisational contexts of professional practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Evidence of engaging stakeholders professionally and communicating the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of displaying leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of being able to manage projects to solve some engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of deploying appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of demonstrating coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer and information science.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
Unit Outline: Summer 2 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB101 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGD101 |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply technical engineering fundamentals and the engineering design process to a given project, including justification and reasoning for design decisions made at an introduced level.
- Critically reflect on engineering design process and professional practice, project management, cultural diversity and ethics with regard to professional engineering practice at an introduced level.
- Collaborate in a team to create and deliver engineering outcomes and to communicate those outcomes to engineers and other stakeholders at an introduced level.
Content
- Introduction to engineering, professional identity and being a Professional Engineer
- How engineers locate information, evaluate its relevance to their engineering work, and use it
- Analysis of physical systems to predict their behaviour and application in practice
- Application of Engineering design methods, tools and techniques to simple engineering systems
- Introduction to professional and personal attributes required of a professional engineer
- Key engineering teamwork principles and elements and the role of an engineer in society
- Introduction to professional engineering communication including writing, presenting and engineering drawing
This unit will include content, case studies and examples of the ways in which the work of professional engineers connects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s status as First Nations owners of land and seas.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers to give you insight into professional engineering knowledge, skills and attributes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. These will be facilitated by tutors and provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
- Design practicals which include experiments and hands-on construction of physical systems in which you will work together with your group in person.
In addition to timetabled activities, you will be provided with learning resources including videos and readings on a unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to complement your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator and Tutors.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions.
- Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding release of these resources.
- Work in a multi-disciplinary team to complete a design and build project. While there will be time during scheduled design and practicals, you and your team will also need to undertake independent work outside that time to complete the project tasks, particularly for areas of individual responsibility.
- Prepare for timetabled classes and activities and follow up on any work not completed.
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently across the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and practicals, you will share your formative ideas for your engineering design project and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your team as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the design process and your understandings of professional engineering practice. Each assessment submission will be marked against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers, against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes.
You will work in a team to undertake an engineering design project across the semester, deploying work practices that align to professional engineering practice (such as project management, ethical work practices and sustainable design principles). You will submit three pieces of assessment related to that design process. You will be expected to work together with your team members and independently to make individual contributions to the design project. You will both build and report on the engineering system and critically reflect on the way you work throughout the semester, developing your professional skills.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes
In this task, you will initially complete a short Journey Map and reflection task, focused on your engineering professional identity. You will be introduced to the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer, and link these elements to your current professional identity, and professional identity being developed throughout your engineering studies, and professional career.
You will then complete a short scoping study report in which you explore the users, stakeholders, community, location, and other contextual factors related to your design project.
This assessment links back to key elements of the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards, in particular the Professional and Personal attributes.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
You will work in a team of student engineers to plan a real world design, and develop a prototype.
Throughout the semester you will work together individually, and as a team to complete your project. The team is expected to apply project and team management principles to enable successful delivery of your Project Specification & Plan. Small milestones will be set throughout the semester for you and your team, and you will receive ongoing feedback throughout the semester. These include elements such as,
- Meeting agendas and minutes
- Project plans (in the form of a Gantt chart)
- Preliminary designs and sketches
- Individual Reflections
- Responses to teaching team feedback
- Regular contributions to the teams working space
- Group contributions and reflections
As this assessment is ongoing throughout the semester, it is not elligible for the 48 hour late submission period.
Assessment: Engineering Project Outcomes
You will work in a team to design and plan an engineering system. You will also develop and create a prototype of this system. You will need to communicate your design in a written report that presents key elements of the user and community engagement, design process, final design and functional performance. Your group will also present your design to the teaching team and peers.
This final report is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions. The presentation is not elligible for this late submission period.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant reading and other resources will be uploaded onto the Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Reference book(s)
Engineering Your Future: An Australasian Guide, David Dowling, Roger Hadgraft, Anna Carew, Tim McCarthy, Doug Hargreaves, Caroline Baillie, Sally Male
Risk Assessment Statement
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
1: Knowledge and Skill Base
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes
2: Engineering Application Ability
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes
3: Professional and Personal Attributes
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO2, Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO3, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
EN29 Bachelor of Engineering Studies
- Evidence of making ethical decisions within the social, cultural and organisational contexts of professional practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Evidence of engaging stakeholders professionally and communicating the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of displaying leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of being able to manage projects to solve some engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of deploying appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of demonstrating coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer and information science.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Application of Professional Engineering Attributes, Teamwork and Project Management Documentation, Engineering Project Outcomes - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Teamwork and Project Management Documentation